asciidoc - converts an AsciiDoc text file to DocBook, HTML or LinuxDoc
asciidoc -b backend [ -d doctype ] [ -a attribute ] [ -e ] [-n] [ -s ] [ -f configfile ] [ -o outfile ] [ --help | -h ] [ --version ] [ -v ] [ -c ] infile
The asciidoc(1) command translates the AsciiDoc text file infile to the backend formatted file outfile. If infile is - then the standard input is used.
Print help. --help topics will print a list of help topics.
Define or delete document attribute. attribute is formatted like name=value. Alternate acceptable forms are name (the value defaults to an empty string) and name! (delete the name attribute). Values containing spaces should be enclosed in double quote characters.
Backend output file format: docbook, xhtml11 or html4.
Dump configuration to stdout.
Exclude implicitly loaded configuration files except for those named like the input file (infile.conf and infile-backend.conf).
Document type: article, manpage or book. The book document type is only supported by the docbook backend. Default document type is article.
Use configuration file configfile.
Auto-number HTML article section titles. Synonym for -a numbered.
Write output to file outfile. Defaults to the base name of input file with backend extension. If the input is stdin then the outfile defaults to stdout. If outfile is - then the standard output is used.
Suppress document header and footer output.
Verbosely print processing information and configuration file checks to stderr.
Print program version number.
See the AsciiDoc distribution BUGS file.
Written by Stuart Rackham, <srackham@methods.co.nz>
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/
Main web site: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
Copyright © 2002-2005 Stuart Rackham. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Version 7.0.0
Last updated 07-Jun-2005 11:46:02 NZDT